Scotty McCreery singing Long Black Train on July 16, 2010.
Scotty McCreery singing Ol Red a Blake Shelton song in 2010.
Daily Archives: May 9, 2011
Johnny Mathis: Misty (55 Years as Recording Artist)
Johnny Mathis singing his standard Misty on a French television program in 1973.
Johnny Mathis singing Crazy from his country music album Let It Be Me.
Johnny Mathis is now in his 55th year of being a recording artist. His first No.1 hit was Chances Are in 1957. He wouldn’t have another No.1 hit till 1973 when I’m Coming Home was No.1 .
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late would be his last single to reach the No.1 spot in 1978. You would think he would have more than three No.1 hits.
Misty the song I most identify with Mathis topped out at No.12 on the charts. I can remember the first time I heard it was when I was at the service club in Hawaii in 1963. I didn’t know today that the song was already four years by then.
Chances Are, It’s Not For Me to Say and Twelfth of Never
Mathis was born in 1935, the same year Elvis Presley was born and will be 76 in September.
Peggy Lee: Class By Herself
Peggy Lee may have died nine years ago but her music lives on since she left behind her musical legacy to be treasured for years to come.
There have been many great female singers since the 30′s but the best in my book is Peggy Lee. She not only has a great voice, but you connect emotionally with her when she sings.
You can actually picture the folks who live on the hill in the song by the same name and who can forget Peggy singing Is That All There Is about the many disappointments in life.
The mark of a great singer is if they can transfer the emotions they are feeling in the song they are singing to the listener and none was better at that than Peggy Lee.
She lost her mother at the age of four and had a wicked stepmother that abused her. So when you hear her singing with so much emotion, it is because she has known life at its worst and its best.
Peggy Lee singing You Was Right Baby.
Peggy Lee may be gone, but she will never be forgotten.
Reese Witherspoon is slated to portray Peggy Lee in a biopic that we hope will be in theaters in the next year or two.
